Gray Towers

Transformation of the emblematic building “White Towers” of the architect Francisco Javier Sáenz de Oíza. Madrid, Spain. Layers overlapping and separated with foam board of 10 mm and 5 mm.

  • Date of the Work
    2022
  • Photographic Dimension
    70 x 50 cm
  • Frame Size
    72 x 52 cm, Deep 10 cm.
  • Materials
    14 Layers of Hahnemühle Photo Rag Baryta 315gsm Paper.
  • Collection
    Unique piece
  • Availability
    Sold

Gray Towers

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Transformation of the emblematic building “White Towers” of the architect Francisco Javier Sáenz de Oíza. Madrid, Spain. Layers overlapping and separated with foam board of 10 mm and 5 mm.

  • Date of the Work
    2022
  • Photographic Dimension
    70 x 50 cm
  • Frame Size
    72 x 52 cm, Deep 10 cm.
  • Materials
    14 Layers of Hahnemühle Photo Rag Baryta 315gsm Paper.
  • Collection:
    Unique piece
  • Availability:
    Sold

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Photographic reconstruction of Torres Blancas

The piece consists of 11 layers of Hahnemühle Photo Rag Baryta paper, divided into multiple pieces cut from the different architectural elements of the towers to reconstruct them arbitrarily in the form of a puzzle, but without losing the architectural essence of the work and maintaining a perspective nature and optics. The intention is to further brutalize, if possible, the structure of the towers and thus generate a visual and perceptual confusion of them. Consisting of separations between elements of 0.5 and 1 cm, the volume that a conventional photo simply worked digitally would lack is accentuated.

Torres Blancas is an icon of Brutalism and organicist architecture. They were designed by the architect Francisco Javier Sáenz de Oiza and their construction was completed in 1969. .

The tower was one of the most complicated and criticized concrete structures of the time. The structural method of pillars and beams was replaced by load-bearing walls, “where nothing has to do with the resistant planning of the skyscraper, where the walls do not weigh”, as Francisco de Inza would comment in 1968.

One of the most criticized architectural works in Madrid, it received the name “Torres Blancas” due to the whitewash that covered its facades and which was rapidly lost, leaving the gray of the concrete in sight.

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If you are interested in this work, please get in touch.
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